Craft Beer Flight : Part 4
As I mentioned in the last part I had basically made 1 beer flight and today had a lot of rinse and repeat, and I am a man of my word. But there was also some other steps that I had started and will finish tomorrow.
TODAY’S ACTIVITIES INCLUDED:
Finish cutting all the glass holes
More Router Time
Oscillating Spindle Sander Time
More Sanding, but with my orbital sander
Creating the dadoes
CUTTING HOLES
Since I had only cut all the holes in 1 of the 9 flights I had to finish cutting all them holes. Nothing really new here as I documented this step in a previous part. Every Flight was to receive four 2” wide holes for the 5 Oz glasses to fit into. So it was back to the drill press to batch out this step. I did do one thing different and that was I gang cut two flight tops at a time. But to be honest I don’t think it was any faster because cutting two at a time seemed to bog down my little bench-top drill press and cant honestly say it was any faster.
ROUTER TIME
As I also did in a previous step I ran the flight parts through a 1/4” round-over profile bit in the router, I like the look of round-overs and they also feel great to the touch. I spent a decent amount of time doing this as I needed to do 8 flight with 3 parts that is a lot of routing, but they did come out awesome.
OSCILLATING SANDER TIME
Now that I have completed all the router work on all the pieces it was time to get rid of the tool marks left behind by the router bit, to get all the curves I used my spindle sander and this is an awesome tool, its not a multi-function tool but all the same it is very good at sanding all them circular shapes in the wood and it will takes the finishing touches up a notch.
MORE SANDING:ORBITAL SANDER
Now that all the curves were sanded it was time to sand all the faces and edges of the parts and to do that I used my orbital sander on a non-slip mat because most of the part’s were very small and I needed to keep them stationary. I started with 100 grit sandpaper on the sander and finished with 320 grit and all the parts were very smooth to the touch.
DADO TIME
Now this is a step that I didnt do before and that is creating the dado groove to receive the feet on the under side of the flight top.
I put a 1/2” wide dado stack into my table-saw and raised it to a 1/4” high as that was the depth of the dado, I measured 1/2” from each side so as that when the glasses were in place they didn’t interfere with the feet or sides.
Here is where I leave it for today, this is a picture of one of the flights done, just need to be glued up.
That is where I leave it for today.
NEXT:
Finish cutting all the dadoes
The Glue up
Applying the finish.
Thanks for reading and I will catch you next time.